Another half an hour passed and the corn was ripe.
Wen Xingyao held the golden sickle in his hand, and intuitively felt that this was not the right tool for harvesting corn, so he quietly put it back into his backpack.
When Bai Li came back with a dazed look on his face, he saw Wen Xingyao squatting at the door of his room, his chin supported by one hand, staring at the ground idly.
"What are you looking at?"
"Zerg."
Bai Li: ???
"Look... at what?"
Zerg? Where did the Zerg come from? How could he not know that his game contained the existence that the StarCraft people hated the most.
Following Wen Xingyao's guidance, I looked over there and saw a group of ants working together to carry a grain of wheat into a small hole, and I was speechless for a long time.
"…Just ants, a common insect."
"Oh, no wonder it's so small." The squatting man stood up as if nothing had happened, "Li Bai, the corn I planted is ripe, so can't I harvest it with a sickle?"
Hearing Wen Xingyao's words, Bai Li turned around and glanced at the cornfield.
The thick and strong corn stalks are about two people tall, and each stalk has ten huge corn cobs. The light green skin cannot cover their bodies, revealing the golden and plump kernels inside. At first glance, you can tell that their owners have put countless fertilizers and magical spring water on them, which represent love and expectation.
Coupled with the buff effect that Bai Li gave to Wen Xingyao before he left, this batch of corn can be said to be of extremely high quality and very rare.
He is indeed a person who is willing to invest money. His attitude is really amazing.
Bai Li first gave Wen Xingyao an approving look, and then signaled the other party to follow the steps he said.
In this game, players can help others fertilize or water the fields, but the harvesting step can only be completed by the owner of the field. Otherwise, Bai Li would have already stepped forward to do it, instead of Wen Xingyao doing it one step at a time.
Fortunately, Wen Xingyao was an extremely smart student, and he copied Bai Li's instructions perfectly. He held the corn stalks in one hand and one of the cobs in the other, and gently snapped it down, and the cob was automatically put into the backpack, and then he could repeat the same action.
When all the corn cobs on a corn plant are broken off, the bare stalks quickly wither, fall to the ground, and then dissipate into the air.
Bai Li discovered that there were more than nine plots of land in front of Wen Xingyao's house, but six more, making a total of fifteen.
Noticing Bai Li's gaze, Wen Xingyao was quite proud: "I had nothing to do just now, so I reclaimed a few more plots of land. Then I can plant more and the harvest will be better."
Anyway, he has plenty of fertilizer and spring water, so he can afford to cultivate so much land.
Although he owned five agricultural planets, Wen Xingyao felt that these many planets did not bring him as much sense of accomplishment as the fifteen pieces of land in front of him.
After a brief exchange, Bai Li also went back to take care of his own land. He had not planted any new crops before leaving, so he planned to plant some corn as well.
As for planting, everything about it has been engraved in his bones and soul. Whether it is digging holes, placing seeds, filling soil, or watering with ordinary stream water, everything he does has a sense of rhythm like flowing water. In the eyes of others, it is a very comfortable visual experience, as if Bai Li is not farming, but performing some kind of elegant art.
Wen Xingyao accidentally looked up, and then looked in Bai Li's direction from time to time. Even his own farming posture began to imitate Bai Li unconsciously. However, he was very careful and was not discovered by Bai Li who was obsessed with farming.
In fact, while Bai Li was busy farming, his mind had long been on how to optimize the game.
He had been in the game for several hours today, and indeed discovered many details that he had overlooked before.
First of all, every player's house, including the fields near the house, needs to be surrounded by a fence. This is private land, and it is best to distinguish it from the public. With a fence, it can be a separate space inside. In the future, if you want to rebuild the house, expand the land and planting area, or add other functional buildings, you will be much freer. However, hey, if you want to expand the land, it will not be free.
When the time is right, the land expansion card can be arranged in the mall.
At the same time, the fence can also prevent strangers from entering and snooping. Of course, the latter requires the fence to be built higher, which can be decided by the player himself. The task of building the fence can be distributed by the old village chief later.
Secondly, the destination of the crops after harvest also needs to be carefully planned. At the beginning, Bai Li only designed the way for the village chief to purchase the crops, but the reaction of the players today told him that it would be very difficult to get the players to sell the crops they grew.
The aroma of wheat alone can make them dizzy. Wouldn't selling the wheat be like cutting flesh out of their hearts?
Let’s develop more correct ways to use some crops!
After thinking for a while, Bai Li added a satiety and energy value system to the game. The former makes people feel hungry, and the latter makes people physically tired. When these two values drop to a certain level, players need to replenish food or rest until the values slowly recover before they can continue to work.
As for games, you still need to combine work and rest.
In this way, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, bowls, plates, cups, chopsticks and various spatulas can also be sold to the village chief.
Bai Li quickly came up with the styles of these things and put them on the old village chief's shop. In order to prevent players from getting aesthetic fatigue, he deliberately came up with a lot of patterns, which should be enough to sell for a while.
With these, the food that players are reluctant to sell now has a new place to go. If you are reluctant to sell it, will you be reluctant to eat it? It smells good, and it tastes even better!
As Bai Li continued to imagine, changes quietly took place in the game.
When he finished planting nine plots of land and taking care of the plants according to his usual practice, he looked up and saw Wen Xingyao holding his stomach with his hands and frowning.
"Li Bai, you're updating the game... why didn't you tell me first?"
I was so hungry suddenly that my full stomach was suddenly empty, as if there was a big hole in it. Who can bear it?
Not to mention Wen Xingyao, Bai Li himself actually felt a strong sense of hunger. He smiled sheepishly and took the initiative to say, "I optimized some content. You feel hungry because you have been farming for too long. You need to eat some food to replenish your hunger. The village chief sells white flour buns and simple seasonings. We can buy them ready-made or make them ourselves."
Is there a place to buy food? Then what are you waiting for? Go for it!
The two looked at each other, put down their work and went out to find the old village chief.
When we arrived at the village gate, we found that there was already a long queue at the position where the village chief was sitting. A group of tall and strong men and women lined up in a long row, looking nervously at the front. From their posture, it seemed that they were afraid that something would be snatched away.
The two walked to the end of the line and lined up together. They patted the shoulder of the person in front of them and asked him what happened.
What a coincidence, this person is someone they know.
"Is it you?"
"Thunder King?"
Xiong Pili responded heavily, "Hey!" Then, he looked at Bai Li with a puzzled look, trying to recall who this person was.
Bai Li then realized that he had changed his face in the game, and Xiong Pili should not be able to recognize him. On the contrary, Xiong Pili's appearance did not change much, except for the pair of round fur ears on his head.
"I'm Bai Li." He introduced himself to people in a low voice.
"It's Mr. Bai!" Xiong Pili was very happy that he met up with Bai Li in the game so quickly.
After adding friends, Xiong Pili told Bai Li and the others the reason why everyone was queuing here.
"Well, the game was suddenly updated just now, and everyone quickly discovered the concept of satiety, and then everyone was hungry. The village chief is the only NPC in this game, so we ran over to ask him what to do. Then, a buddy found a white flour bun in the village chief's store. It only cost 2 copper coins each, which was super cheap, so the buddy bought one, and when he took it out, it was as big as half his face!"
As he spoke, Xiong Pili swallowed his saliva, a trace of yearning appeared on his face. "I was too far away at the time, so I couldn't see it very clearly, but according to others, the steamed bun smelled delicious, even more delicious than the wheat I smelled before. That guy took the first bite with a skeptical attitude, and then he couldn't stop eating. In less than a minute, he ate such a big steamed bun. Now he is still queuing, saying that he wants to use all his copper coins to buy steamed buns."
After saying that, he raised the back of his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth and swallowed hard again.
"Mr. Bai, Yaoxing, now you should know why we are all queuing here?" Xiong Pili regretted it so much, "I should have thought of planting the seeds first. Now I am so far behind in the queue, and I don't know when I can eat the legendary white flour buns. Do you think these buns should be sold out?"
Wow, my goodness, the “legendary” ones are here!
"Don't worry, they won't be sold out. There will be enough." Bai Li said softly.
As the designer of the game, his words were the most convincing. Moreover, the appearance of white flour buns was also promoted by Bai Li, and the unlimited supply was also set by him. Sure enough, after listening to Bai Li's words, Xiong Pili's eyes lit up and he muttered a few words in a low voice, "How could I forget about this?"
He didn't say anything more, probably because he was concerned that Bai Li didn't want to make his identity public.
The people at the front of the team did not notice the conversation between the three people at the end. Their entire attention was absorbed by the white flour buns that suddenly appeared, and they had no time to care about anything else.
As players successfully bought the steamed buns one by one, the line became shorter and shorter. The air was filled with a sweet fragrance. The players who hadn't bought anything yet became more and more greedy, and the sound of them swallowing their saliva became much louder.
Finally, it was Xiong Pili's turn to buy. He was not polite and used all the copper coins he had accumulated from the previous missions to buy steamed buns, holding one in each hand and putting the rest in his backpack.
The white flour buns were soft and fluffy, but they looked much smaller in his palm-leaf fan-like hands. He didn't have time to admire them, and couldn't wait to stuff one of them into his mouth. He took a big bite, and when the sweet but not greasy fragrance exploded in his mouth, his tears flowed down.
"It's so delicious! Ah! What a divine delicacy!"
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